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Bart Kastermans is a software engineer and data scientist based
in the Netherlands (working in Amsterdam area, living in
Uitgeest). In 2012 he made the switch from an academic position
(Mathematics) to a position in IT. In januari 2019 he made the
next switch from tech lead of the data streaming engine, to a
position as software developer in the security team.

At the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, he wrote a thesis in
Set Theory titled Cofinitary Groups and Other Almost Disjoint
Families under supervision of Andreas Blass and Yi Zhang. During
the writing he visited Yi Zhang at Sun-Yat Sen University in
China for a year.

After getting a PhD he worked as a postdoc at the Mathmatics
department of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for three
years. During this time he worked with Steffen Lempp, resulting
in a couple of papers among which is the paper on Comparing
Notions of Randomness. He then moved on to be an Assistant
Professor at the Mathematics department of the University of
Colorado, Boulder, for three years. This was a tenure-track
position, but after those three years he decided to give in to a
long standing interest in information technology.